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Vietnam pledges promotion of women's empowerment Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen highlighted Vietnam's achievements in empowering women at the March 15 working session of the ongoing 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. Vietnam, for the first time, has three female Politburo members, equivalent to nearly 16 percent, and more than half of ministries and agencies have women holding key positions, the minister said. These female officials are expected to be promising candidates for the upcoming election of deputies to the 14th National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels for 2016-2021, she added. Alongside this, female labourers make up 48.3 percent of the country's total figure and nearly 24.9 percent of business managers are women. Notably, maternity mortality dropped over three folds, from 233 mothers per 100,000 live births in 1990, to 59 in 2014 and an estimated 58.3 in 2015, according to the official. … [Read more...] about Social News 18/3